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Updated: Fri 4:17 PM, Jun 23, 2017

Good morning, it’s Monday, June 26, the 177th day of 2017. There are 188 days left in the year. We’ll start the workweek in the upper 60s and we’re expecting afternoon highs in the upper 80s before temperatures drop back into the upper 60s overnight. There’s a slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm.

On June 26, 1974—43 years ago today--the supermarket price scanner made its debut in Troy, Ohio, as a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum that sold for 67 cents and bore a Uniform Product Code (UPC) was scanned by Marsh Supermarket cashier Sharon Buchanan for customer Clyde Dawson. The barcoded package of gum sold in the first retail transaction in which a bar code was used is on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. “The bar code actually cost more than the gum,” said Pedro Reyes, an associate professor of operations and supply chain management in Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business and director of the Center for Excellence in Supply Chain Management. Today bar codes can contain a wealth of data, he says. “Pretty much anything that is desired. Anything from just numbers to embedding images can be achieved,” Reyes said, adding that bar codes are used in everything from point-of-sale transactions to inventory management and packaging systems. “Some bar codes are used like the license plate on a car, as a way to get more information from a database. Others contain all of the required information directly in the bar code – like the bar code on an airlines boarding pass,” he said.

Today's Highlight in Local History:On June 26, 1991, the capital murder conviction of Lake Waco triple murder suspect Muneer Deeb was reversed.On June 26, 2015, Jessica Preciado, 32, and her fiancée, 31-year-old Jaclyn Owens, were the first couple in Central Texas to apply for a marriage license after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states. The two applied for the license at the McLennan County Clerk’s Office in Waco, where Tatiana Gilbert, 28, a student at McLennan Community College, and Shawn Millsap, 28, a corrections officer, also applied moments later (they were actually the first to arrive at the office). No other clerk’s offices in Central Texas issued licenses and McLennan County District Judges weren’t issuing waivers to the 72-hour waiting period.

Today's Highlight in History:On June 26, 1917, the first troops of the American Expeditionary Force deployed to France during World War I landed in St. Nazaire.

On This Date:In 1483, Richard III began his reign as King of England (he was crowned the following month at Westminster Abbey).In 1870, the first section of Atlantic City, New Jersey's Boardwalk was opened to the public.In 1925, Charles Chaplin's classic comedy "The Gold Rush" premiered at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for a second term of office by delegates to the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia.In 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.In 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized the U.S. Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean War.In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway. Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson knocked out Floyd Patterson in the third round of their match at New York's Yankee Stadium to win the heavyweight title.In 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his famous speech expressing solidarity with the city's residents, declaring: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).In 1967, French actress Francoise Dorleac, the 25-year-old sister of Catherine Deneuve, was killed in a car crash in Nice.In 1977, 42 people were killed when a fire sent toxic smoke pouring through the Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tennessee. Elvis Presley performed his last concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis.In 1987, Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announced his retirement, leaving a vacancy that was filled by Anthony M. Kennedy.In 1997, the first Harry Potter novel, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J.K. Rowling, was published in the United Kingdom (it was later released in the United States under the title "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone").

Ten years ago: Conservative commentator Ann Coulter, appearing on MSNBC's "Hardball," got into a verbal fracas with Elizabeth Edwards, who called into the program to ask Coulter to stop making personal attacks on her husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. Paris Hilton left the Los Angeles County jail after a three-week stay for a probation violation. Fashion designer Liz Claiborne died in New York at age 78.

Five years ago: Sen. Orrin Hatch won the GOP primary in Utah, handily turning back a challenge from tea party-backed Dan Liljenquist. In Oklahoma, five-term Rep. John Sullivan fell to a tea party-supported candidate, Jim Bridenstine, who went on to win election to Congress. Twelve-time All-Star Joe Sakic was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, joining Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure and Adam Oates as the newest class of inductees. Essayist, author and filmmaker Nora Ephron, 71, died in New York. Actress Doris Singleton, 92, died in Los Angeles.

One year ago: Fourteen people suffered stab wounds, cuts and bruises when fighting erupted outside the California state Capitol in Sacramento between more than 300 counter-protesters and about 30 members of the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white nationalist group. Fireworks exploded as a huge Chinese-owned container ship made the inaugural passage through the newly expanded Panama Canal.

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